As President Obama called for new gun control reform measures, Thursday’s school shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon has brought new attention to the actions of Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, who is investigating the shooting.
It so happens that this film gets its release here just as high-risk, high-yield mortgage bonds are making a cheeky comeback in the US. The name has been changed from “sub-prime” to “non-prime”. There are higher safeguards, reportedly, although that new prefix weirdly makes it sound like fewer. So 99 Homes coincides with the financial world’s Windscale/Sellafield moment.
The Miranda warning includes the right to a public defender. It doesn’t include the fact that public defenders are highly overworked and grossly underpaid.
New research into human fossils dating back approximately two million years reveals how a hearing pattern that might have been useful in vocal communication in an open terrain.
“Olvidados” is one of those gripping, hard hitting political films about Latin America, a tradition including Sergei Eisenstein’s 1932 epic “Que Viva Mexico!”, Costa-Gavras’ 1972 “State of Siege” and 1982 “Missing”, Set and shot mostly in Bolivia and Chile, “Olvidados” (the forgotten, vanished people) creatively uses a flashback structure to tell the harrowing tale.
Richard Gere gives a complex, unblinking portrayal of a homeless man on the streets of New York who is no longer sure of who he is or how he got there. The movie has an exceptional cast including Jena Malone (the estranged daughter), Ben Vereen, Kyra Sedgewick and Steve Buscemi. Check local listings.
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